Christian Michael Filardo + Lee Noble

Join us for a poetry reading, spoken word and sound performance by Christian Michael Filardo (voice) and Lee Noble (synthesizer).

Christian Michael Filardo (b. 1991, Grapevine, TX), whose ominous flags float above our current group exhibition, Moon Spiral Heart Attack, is a Filipino-American poet, musician, and artist working in Brooklyn. Utilizing photography, poetry, and sequencing in the creation of complex visual narratives, Filardo’s work engages with human happiness, climate change, theology, alien myth, ancestral history, drug use and trans humanist philosophy. Filardo received a BFA in Performance Art at Arizona State University. They have exhibited both locally and internationally, including at Radical Abacus (Santa Fe), David Richard Gallery (Santa Fe), Commune (Tokyo), Office Project Room (Milan), Current Space (Baltimore) and The Material Room (Richmond, VA) and they have a solo exhibition opening April 8th at Night Club, Minneapolis. Their work has been published in several photobooks including “The Purple Pill”, Gradient of Happiness, Paradise Engineering, and The Hedonic Treadmill, among others. They are the founder of the Santa Fe art space, Etiquette, as well as writing critically for Photo-Eye and PHROOM.

Lee Noble (b. 1983, Nashville, TN) is a visual artist, musician, and curator working across various media including painting, installation, albums, zines, and printmaking. Together with Emma Beatrez, he co-curated our current exhibition, Moon Spiral Heart Attack. Adopting a philosophy of improvised collage, Noble privileges non-hierarchical collaboration and an urgent entanglement with the materials and media that make up our world. Drawing on visual and linguistic influences that include film history, punk culture, new age affirmations, memes, and symbolist poetry, he interrogates myth, authority, technological obsolescence, and the proliferation of disposable imagery. He is particularly interested in the ways in which culture is transmitted across platforms in a hyper-saturated media environment. Noble is currently based in Minneapolis where he received hisMFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 2020. He has performed at venues and festivals that include Hopscotch Fest in Raleigh, ReWire fest in The Hague, Issue Project Room in Brooklyn, and as part of the Walker Art Center’s ‘Expanding the Frame’ program. His visual work has been exhibited in Los Angeles, Austin, Minneapolis, New York, Manchester, and Berkeley, and in publications by Picturebox Inc., Thames & Hudson, Spector Books, and Secret Headquarters. His most recent solo exhibition, Hold Your Hand Out In The Dark, was presented at Dreamsong in 2021. Noble is the founder of No Kings and Vague Int’l, a record label and publishing imprint respectively, as well as Night Club, a joint curatorial project with Emma Beatrez.